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In the war for social media supremacy, Facebook is king, but Twitter is a major player and Google is making both companies nervous with Google+. All three can't be winners, though -- most people simply don't have enough hours in the day to use three ...

The SXSW Faceoff Series is supported by Pepsi MAX. Come check out the Pepsi MAX Lot at 3rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard! Follow @PepsiMAX on Twitter for the daily schedule of huge concerts, happy hours, BBQs, games and giveaways! And, well, lots ...

The SXSW Faceoff Series is supported by Pepsi MAX. Come check out the Pepsi MAX Lot at 3rd Street and San Jacinto Boulevard! Follow @PepsiMAX on Twitter for the daily schedule of huge concerts, happy hours, BBQs, games and giveaways! And, well, lots ...

The battle between Facebook Groups and Twitter Lists was close, but once again Facebook came out on top -- at least for now. Last week we asked you, the readers, to choose between Facebook Groups and Twitter Lists. Both are tools for organizing and c...

With Groups, Facebook has created a new way to organize and communicate with your social circles. Does this make Twitter Lists obsolete? A year ago, Twitter launched its Lists feature. (Yes, it's been that long.) Lists gave users the ability to curat...

Two titans of the web 1.0 era are trying to find their footing in the world of the social web. Will Yahoo or AOL be able to regain their former glory? At the turn of the century, Yahoo and AOL were the kings of the web. During January 2000, Yahoo's s...

While Google Instant still has a long way to go to win over the web, Mashable's readers have once again given Instant their seal of approval. Google made one of the biggest-ever changes to its search engine this month. Instant brings not only search-...

Google Search has been instantized; will it fundamentally change the way we search, or do users prefer Google without the search predictions? Google Instant rolled out last week to users across the U.S. (and in several other countries) with great fan...

In the battle for supremacy over the music scene, it looks like MySpace is still king. Ping launched with much fanfare as the flagship feature of iTunes 10. The music social network gained more than 1 million users in two days and has quickly been ad...

Apple has jumped into the social media game with Ping, its social network for music. Does it spell trouble for MySpace's established grip in the music space? Last week, Apple launched Ping as the core new feature of iTunes 10. While simple, the music...

This week's Web Faceoff between Skype and Google Voice came down to the wire. Last week, Google stepped onto Skype's turf with the launch of Google Voice integration in Gmail. Since its launch, Gmail users have made over 10 million calls through the ...

In the debate between the old version of Digg and the new Digg, the readers have spoken. Last week, Digg launched version 4.0 of the popular social news website. It's been a rocky road pre-launch, so why would it be any different post-launch? Since t...

With the help of Gmail, Google has turned Google Voice into a legitimate Skype competitor. Is it enough to make people abandon Skype for Google Voice calling? The Skype software application has been around since 2003. Since its launch, it has garnere...

Facebook has made its grand entrance into the geolocation space with Facebook Places. Will users embrace it and ditch Foursquare? That's the question we posed in this week's Web Faceoff, our ongoing series comparing technology apps or ideas. We asked...

The new version of Digg is here. After months of testing and a change in CEO, Digg version 4 has been unleashed on the masses. Digg's new interface boasts not only quicker load times, but a personalized approach to social news. While the old version ...

The last time we visited the location market in our weekly Web Faceoff series, Foursquare established itself as leader in a lopsided reader vote. Now there's a new challenger gunning for Foursquare's position, and it's got 500 million users as ammuni...

While many web companies offer their products for free, they aren't exempt from the oldest rule of business: Make more money than you spend. Every company has to generate revenue, a fact which was demonstrated clearly last week by Hootsuite's new Fre...

When you're reading your e-mail, surfing the web or updating your Facebook account, do you prefer the familiarity and accuracy of the mouse or the novelty and possibilities of a touchscreen? That was the subject of our most recent Web Faceoff, our we...

The mouse has been a mainstay of the personal computer ever since the first GUI-enabled Apple Macintoshes hit store shelves. It's how the vast majority of us interact with our computers every single day. Yet of the many basic computing features that ...

One of the most visible battles in all of technology is Mac vs. PC. Earlier in the week, we asked you, the Mashable readers, to weigh in. Our Web Faceoff this week focused around the device you're probably using right now: the computer. We wanted to ...

With the rise of e-book technologies such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple's iBooks, are we finally witnessing the end of the printed word? That's the question we posed this week in our Web Faceoff series. We wanted to know whether you, the readers, pr...

Earlier today, Amazon announced that Kindle books are now outselling hardcovers. Are we witnessing the dawn of the e-book? That is the subject of today's Web Faceoff, our weekly series where we pit two web apps against each other in a competition for...

While there are many players in the online video space, there are two that stand tall above the rest: YouTube and Hulu. Both video sites represent vastly different business models and philosophies. On the one hand, YouTube became the powerhouse it is...

YouTube has been the king of online video for years, but the Google-owned video service has had its share of trials and tribulations. While YouTube is now making some revenue, its costs have eaten that away by and large. And while YouTube is still gr...

This Web Faceoff series is supported by GMC. Last week it was an online shopping showdown in our long-running Web Faceoff series, in which we wanted to know which you prefer: Amazon, eBay or Craigslist. The big winner in that matchup was Amazon, with...

This Web Faceoff series is supported by Buick. Last week, as part of our Web Faceoff series, we asked which you preferred: Google TV or Boxee? Google TV trounced Boxee with 600 votes, or 51%. Boxee garnered 395 votes to take 33% of the poll, while ne...

This Web Faceoff series is supported by GMC. Last week in our long-running Web Faceoff series we wanted to know which smartphone would win in a knock-down, drag out fight: the HTC EVO 4G or the new iPhone 4?federated_media_section = "gmpost3"; The wi...

This Web Faceoff series is supported by Buick. Last week in our Web Faceoff series, we asked you, the readers, to help us answer a question: Where do you get more of your news: Twitter or newspapers? At least among Mashable's readers, social media wa...

This Web Faceoff series is supported by Buick. It's time once again for a new edition of our Web Faceoff Series, wherein we pit two services, devices or trends against each other for a knock-down, drag-out fight for the affection of Mashable readers....

The war between Google and Apple has jumped from mobile to television, but which tech giant is going to win the hearts and minds of the web TV world? Last week, Google launched Google TV in an attempt to seamlessly integrate the web into our living r...

Google has made its triumphant entrance in the entertainment war with Google TV. Will users embrace it over the likes of Apple TV, though? That's the question we're asking you in this week's Web Faceoff, where we poll the Mashable readership on which...

In this week's edition of our long-running Web Faceoff series we wanted to know: which is better for mobile device typing, physical QWERTY or virtual keyboards? The polls are closed, all hanging chads have been counted and the results are in: physica...

It's time once again for a new edition of our long-running Faceoff Series, in which we pit two competing devices, services or trends against each other to see which has captured the hearts and minds of Mashable readers. Last week we learned that the ...

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